Ya I don't know... In theory that sounds great but a lot of people (like me) wouldn't give up an actual computer system. What I think would work best for them is the following:
They have a dock for them phone. But not like the atrix. Instead it would use the data connection to connect to a cloud server that would give you access to a full Mac OSX system. So the phone connects you virtually and the dock is for i/o.

Moderator

No, what you are saying doesn't make sense. Hippo is correct. The 3G was named after a network, not an iPhone generation. It was the 2nd iPhone. The 3GS was the 3rd and the iPhone 4 was the 4th. The 4S is the 5th iPhone; they just chose to give it another name. Naming the 6th iPhone (fall 2012) the 5th iPhone makes absolutely no sense.

Genius

Hippo's post makes sense to me. The first iPhone was just called iPhone. The second iPhone was the 3G, the third was the 3GS, the fourth was the 4, the fifth the 4S. The next iPhone, the sixth, will not be called iPhone5 but more likely iPhone6 or something else Apple comes up with.

Member

No, what you are saying doesn't make sense. Hippo is correct. The 3G was named after a network, not an iPhone generation. It was the 2nd iPhone. The 3GS was the 3rd and the iPhone 4 was the 4th. The 4S is the 5th iPhone; they just chose to give it another name. Naming the 6th iPhone (fall 2012) the 5th iPhone makes absolutely no sense.

Just for the record. Apple took a year and a half to release the 4S. Releasing the next iPhone may take 2 years. If they release the 6th iPhone in 2013, it is possible there will be 5g networks (even though they're not expected until 2020). Therefore there is still a slight chance that the 6th iPhone could be named the iPhone 5.

Anyway thanks Europa, and I would like the title to be changed to "iPhone 6 Predictions" if possible.

My question is, why was the first iPhone named the 2G? since it was on a 3G network?

Zealot

i think it's safe to say their will be no 5g network by 2013. considering how long it took most cell providers to go 4g/lte/wimax etc... and most providers don't have their 4g networks at 100% (all cities).

Evangelist

Ya I don't know... In theory that sounds great but a lot of people (like me) wouldn't give up an actual computer system. What I think would work best for them is the following:
They have a dock for them phone. But not like the atrix. Instead it would use the data connection to connect to a cloud server that would give you access to a full Mac OSX system. So the phone connects you virtually and the dock is for i/o.